Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 42, No. 1, August 2007

Table of Contents

• EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

  Anne DiPardo and Melanie Sperling

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  Keywords: College

• God on the Gallows: Reading the Holocaust through Narratives of Redemption

  Karen Spector

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  Abstract: “Where is God now?” is a question from the Holocaust memoir Night by Elie Wiesel and an underlying narrative dilemma for the teachers and most student participants in this qualitative study of three Holocaust units in secondary English classrooms in the Midwestern United States.

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• When Reading It Wrong Is Getting It Right: Shared Evaluation Pedagogy among Struggling Fifth Grade Readers

  Maren S. Aukerman

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  Abstract: This study offers an alternative to traditional notions of scaffolding for reading comprehension by tracing the evolution of a fifth-grade small group literature conversation in which the teacher sought to displace himself as “primary knower” (Berry, 1981) in the conversation. The study examines how the teacher shared evaluation with his students even when they sought to reposition him as primary knower.

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• Sources of Writing Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Elementary, Middle,and High School Students

  Frank Pajares, Margaret J. Johnson, Ellen L. Usher

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  Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Albert Bandura’s four hypothesized sources of self-efficacy on students’ writing self-efficacy beliefs (N = 1256) and to explore how these sources differ as a function of gender and academic level (elementary, middle, high). Consistent with the tenets of self-efficacy theory, each of the sources significantly correlated with writing self-efficacy and with each other.

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• AT LAST: The Meaning in Grammar

  Mary J. Schleppegrell

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• GUEST REVIEWERS

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